In The News: Special Collections and Archives
The community will gather across southern Nevada on Friday to mark 25 years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks that changed the course of the nation.
Veterans and employees gather at New York-New York in Las Vegas.
The shirts, still creased from wherever they’d been folded away for years, were laid out flat on a long table near the replica Statue of Liberty at New York-New York on the Strip.
Thousands of shirts, flags, stuffed animals, and handwritten notes left outside the New York-New York Hotel and Casino after the Sept. 11 attacks are being preserved at UNLV as a lasting tribute to those lost and the people who mourned them.
Twenty-five years ago, people began leaving T-shirts, flags, flowers, photographs and handwritten messages outside the Statue of Liberty replica at New York-New York hotel-casino. What began spontaneously in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks eventually grew into a collection of more than 6,000 pieces.
Behind the doors at UNLV is a carefully curated collection of items that showcase the history and personal touch of September 11th, 2001.
Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the effects of that day can still be seen across Southern Nevada.
Public can view items at UNLV Special Collections and Archives
Historical research preserved at UNLV notes that Mexicans worked on local railroad crews as early as 1905, and Census records show substantial Mexican participation in the railroad workforce by 1910. Migration increased during the Mexican Revolution as workers came north seeking economic opportunity.
SCNG journalists' Day 2 en route to New York for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was a search for “all that is honest and good.”
SCNG journalists' first stop en route to New York for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks is the fake version where genuine feelings were shared.
Many of those lives lost on 9/11 are remembered in the UNLV Special Collections and Archives at the Lied Library. In the wake of the attacks, an impromptu shrine formed outside of New York-New York on the Las Vegas Strip.